_Italian Writer on Political Economy--Death of Carli_ (Vol. iv., p. 175.).--It is inquired, "What was the first work by an Italian writer on any element of political economy? and in what year did Carli, the celebrated economist, die?" The latter question I at once answer by stating that it was on the 22d of February, 1795, in his seventy-fifth year, having been born at Cape d'Istria, an episcopal town of Illyria, April, 1720, of a noble family. His collected works, embracing almost the _omne scibile_, were published in 1784-1794, nineteen octavo volumes, at Milan, _Delle Opere del Signor Gianrinaldo Conte Carli, Presidente Emerito del Supremo Conciglio di Pubblica Economia, &c._ The first publication, confined to fifteen volumes, was extended to nineteen by him, _Delle Antichità Italiche, con Appendice, de' Documenti, &c._, 1793-1795. Few writers have exceeded him in the variety of his subjects, which combined the drama, poetry, translations, history, philosophy, the monetary system, political economy, &c. As to your correspondent ALPHA'S first inquiry, it will be satisfactorily answered by consulting the collection printed at Milan in 1803, _Scrittori Classici Italiani_, first volume of the fifty in 8vo., to which the entire extend up to that period, since when several have appeared. J. R. Cork. _Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots_ (Vol. iv., p. 316.).--The four lines inscribed in the copy of Sallust mentioned by C., and which have been _supposed_ to be the composition of the Queen of Scots, will be found in the second book of Ovid's _Amores_, Elegia 18, ll. 5-8. C. W. G. _Surplices_ (Vol. iv., p. 192.).--In reference to the origin, use, &c. of this and other ecclesiastical vestments, let J. Y. consult the following authorities:--Bona, _Rerum Liturgicarum_, lib. i. cap. 24.; Gerberti _Vetus Liturgia Alemannica_, tom. i. disquisit. iii. cap 3.; Goar, _Rituale Græcum_; Du Cange's _Glossary_; and, _Ferrarius de Re Vestiaria_. The information on the subject, hence to be obtained, is briefly epitomised in the appendix to Palmer's _Antiq. of the English Liturgy_. Let J. Y. also look at Hawkins' _Hist. Music_, vol. ii. p. 432.; vol. iii. p. 71.; likewise at Bishop Challoner's _Garden of the Soul_, pp. x. 123. (edit. 1824); and, if he have a full abundance of leisure, with sufficient resolution to abandon it to an undertaking so pregnant with instructiveness, let him too, by all means, "explore with curious search" the controversial writings of the early periods of Puritanism, on the sadly vexed question of the habits of the clergy, to which he will find abundant reference in all our Anglican church histories. COWGILL. _Continental Watchmen and their Songs_ (Vol. iv., p. 206.).-- THE MANNER OF WATCHMEN INTIMATING THE TIME AT HERRNHUTH, GERMANY.